FEDERAL UNIVERSITY, BIRNIN KEBBI

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

SECOND SEMESTER EXAMINATION, 2018/2019 SESSION
Course Code: CSC 402 Course Unit: 3
Course Title: Computer Networks/Communications Time Allowed: 2 hour
Instructions: Answer Five (5) Questions Only and Each Question carries 12 marks
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Q1. a. List and explain the layers of the Internet model. (5 marks)
b. What is the difference between a port address, a logical address, and a physical address?
(1 Mark)
c. How do the layers of the Internet model correlate to the layers of the OSI model? 3 marks
d. Define the following terms: (3 marks)
i. Data Communications ii. Network iii. Protocol

Q2. a. Discuss the two classes of transmission media. (4 marks)

b. List and explain three different techniques in serial transmission. (3 marks)
c. Identify the five components of a data communications system. (4 marks)
d. What is an internet? What is the Internet? (1 mark)

Q3. a.If a periodic signal is decomposed into five sine waves with frequencies of 100, 300, 500,
700, and 900 Hz, what is its bandwidth? Draw the spectrum, assuming all components
have a maximum amplitude of 10 V. ( 3 marks)
b. Explain baseband and Broadband transmission. (3 marks)

c. Discuss three causes of transmission impairment. (3 marks)

d.We have a channel with a I-MHz bandwidth. The SNR for this channel is 63. What are the

appropriate bit rate and signal level? (3 marks)

Q4. a. An analog signal has a bit rate of 8000 bps and a baud rate of 1000 baud. How many data
elements are carried by each signal element? How many signal elements do we need?
(3 marks)
b. Four 1-kbps connections are multiplexed together. A unit is 1 bit. Find (i) the duration of
1 bit before multiplexing, (ii) the transmission rate of the link, (iii) the duration of a time
slot, and (iv) the duration of a frame. (4 marks)
c.What are the propagation time and the transmission time for a 2.5-kbyte message (an e-
mail) if the bandwidth of the network is 1 Gbps? Assume that the distance between the
sender and the receiver is 12,000 km and that light travels at 2.4 × 108 m/s. (3 marks)
d. i. Define Bandwidth-delay product. (2 marks)
ii. If bandwidth = 10 bps and Delay = 5 s, calculate the Bandwidth-Delay Product.

Q5. a. List and explain the techniques for Digital-to-analog conversion. (4 marks)
b. List three Wireless transmission waves. State where each wave is used. (3 marks)
c. Describe the need for switching and define a switch. (3 marks)
d. List the three traditional switching methods. What are the most common today? (2 marks)

Q6.a. Discuss the Categories of multiplexing techniques (3 marks)

b. State the goal of multiplexing. (3 marks)
c. Distinguish between a link and a channel in multiplexing. (3 marks)
d. Discuss the two approaches to packet-switching. (3 marks)
Q7. a. Draw a hybrid topology with a ring backbone and two bus networks. (4 marks)
b. You have two computers connected by an Ethernet hub at home. Is this a LAN, a MAN, or a
WAN? Explain your reason. (3 marks)
c. What is the difference between half-duplex and full-duplex transmission modes? (3 marks)
d. For n devices in a network, what is the number of cable links required for a mesh, ring,
bus,and star topology? (2 marks)